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The charm of a crumble pastry but successful convenient hand-held form, Raspberry Jam Oat Bars person a buttery oatmeal biscuit base, a furniture of jam, past topped with a crumble. Love however the aforesaid substance is utilized for the basal and crumbly topping. Handy – and accelerated to make!
Easy raspberry jam oat bars
These are deliciously buttery crumble bars that are cleanable for immoderate occasion. You’ll emotion the operation of the saccharine fruity jam filling sandwiched betwixt the oatmeal cooky basal and the crumbly aureate topping.
And you’ll particularly emotion however speedy these are to get successful the oven! Similar jam barroom recipes telephone for softened food to beryllium creamed with an electrical beater (like for oatmeal cookies) oregon rubbed into flour utilizing your fingers (like for shortbread).
In contrast, my look starts with melted food which is conscionable mixed with a woody spoon with oats, flour etc. I’ve made it the modular way, and my way, and the quality is hardly discernible.
So my easier mode it is!
What goes successful raspberry jam oat bars
While these are made with raspberry jam, it tin beryllium made with immoderate jam flavour your bosom desires. Strawberry, blueberry, marmalade, apricot!
Jam – As noted above, immoderate flavour jam you privation tin beryllium used! I utilized raspberry.
Rolled oats – Not speedy oats oregon steel-cut oats. Just plain accepted oats.
Flour – Just plain / each intent flour. Wholemeal / wholewheat flour volition enactment too. I haven’t tried with gluten-free flour oregon almond repast (ground almonds).
Butter – Unsalted butter. No request to bring to country somesthesia arsenic we volition melt it.
Sugar – Brown sweetener adds beauteous caramel-y flavour to the base. However, if you’re out, achromatic sweetener tin beryllium substituted.
Egg – A ample one, from a carton labelled with the size “large”. Industry modular is 55 – 60g / 2 oz each.
Baking powder – Just 1/2 teaspoons adds a spot of lift. It doesn’t marque the biscuit basal cake, it conscionable prevents it from baking into a factual block.
Salt – Just a pinch, to bring retired the different flavours. It doesn’t marque it salty.
The making portion – speedy & easy!
One oats biscuit substance is utilized for the basal and the crumbly topping. Convenient!
Oat cooky mixture – Melt the food successful a vessel successful the microwave. Mix successful sugar, past egg, past the flour, oats, baking pulverization and salt.
Spread successful pan – Line a 20cm/8″ quadrate metallic cookware with insubstantial with overhang to marque it casual to assistance retired later. Spread 1 1/2 cups of the oat substance crossed the base. I partially dispersed it retired utilizing a woody spoon, semi cutting / pressing the clumps. Then I decorativeness it with my hands.
Press the basal successful firmly and marque the aboveground reasonably smooth. We’re making a rustic crockery here, truthful nary request to spell to municipality connected an ultra creaseless surface.
Spread jam crossed the surface. If your jam is simply a spot steadfast jelly-like, you mightiness privation to lukewarm it up concisely to marque it easier to spread.
Crumble remaining oat substance crossed the aboveground utilizing your fingers.
Bake for 30 minutes astatine 200°C/400°F (180°C fan-forced) oregon until the aboveground is golden. Cool successful the cookware earlier lifting retired utilizing the overhang insubstantial and cutting into 16 squares.
TIP to velocity up the cooling: chill 30 minutes connected the counter, 30 minutes successful fridge.
These truly mightiness beryllium 1 of the fastest bars ever to make. Well, the 5 Ingredient Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars are a blistery contender for the World’s Speediest Bars too. 
Tuck them into luncheon boxes. Take them to publication club. Serve them for day tea.
Or, for thing different, service them arsenic dessert, lukewarm similar pome crumble with a scoop of vanilla crystal pick connected top. YES! – Nagi x
PS Those caramelised bits on the edges are the BEST. Like a chewy candy. I’ll combat you for them!
Watch however to marque it
Easiest Ever Raspberry Jam Bars
Ingredients
- 125g / 1 instrumentality unsalted butter , melted
- 1 large egg (55-60g / 2 oz)
- 1 1/2 cups flour (plain / all-purpose)
- 1 1/2 cups rolled oats (traditional oats, not quick, instant oregon steel-cut)
- 1/2 cupful / 110g cup brown sugar , tightly packed
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup raspberry jam (or different flavour)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan). Grease a 20cm/8" metallic cookware with food past enactment with baking/parchment insubstantial with overhang (so it tin beryllium lifted retired erstwhile cooked).
- Oatmeal cooky basal – Melt food successful a microwave impervious bowl. Mix successful sweetener until lump free. Add ovum past premix until incorporated. Then adhd flour, oats, baking pulverization and brackish and premix until you tin nary longer spot flour.
- Base – Spread 1 1/2 cups of the substance successful the prepared pan, and property successful with your hands. Spread with jam (microwave to loosen, if needed), past usage your hands to crumble the remaining substance implicit the apical (Note 3).
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes oregon until the apical is heavy golden. Remove and let to afloat chill successful the cookware (~ 2 hours) earlier lifting retired of the tin utilizing the baking paper. (Speed things up: 30 min counter, 30 infinitesimal fridge)
- Cut into 16 squares. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Originally published July 2016, successful the days earlier I learned however to marque look videos! Updated March 2023 with a look video, sparkling caller photos and overmuch needed cleanable up of the writing.
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Normally I update this conception with existent Dozer happenings, but I though you mightiness similar this from the archetypal work day – Dozer suspiciously sniffing a runaway raspberry, disappointed helium didn’t get to sensation trial the Raspberry Bars!
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